RE: No GTK+ 2.6 in GNOME 2.8

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 16:02 -0400, Ross McFarland wrote:
> Murray Cumming said:
> > On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 07:29 -0400, Jeffrey Morgan wrote:
> >> The java team had hoped to enhance our gdk layer by adding
> >> many of the missing methods.  Will you be oposed to these
> >> additions?
> >
> > OK, so I think the best thing to do for this is to just add "unstable"
> > to your tarball names. something-2.4.5unstable.tar.gz looks a bit
> > strange but at least nobody can claim that it is stable.
> >
> > When making unstable releases with 2.4 names, please do make it
> > absolutely clear that they contain API that could change and that distro
> > packagers should not update their stable packages with them.
> >
> > You might want to start at some high number such as 2.4.10unstable. That
> > would give you room to do maintenance releases of your stable branches,
> > with numbers like 2.4.2.
> >
> > Or, does anyone have a better suggestion yet?
> 
> <beatting of dead horse>
> as i've said before (i/we think) the idea of synced version numbers are more
> problems than they are worth. with gtk2-perl we get to do all of our unstable
> work under 1.05x (1.04x is the stable series.) people don't seem to have a
> problem figuring out that they need to get the higest version number.
> </beatting of dead horse>

Yes, that is a perfectly valid point of view. But there are pros and
cons for both ways of doing it. People can get confused pretty easily,
and I hope that this is the simplest thing overall - it seems to be what
most people expect.

> i guess this won't work as well for the groups who are doing seperate bindings
> versions for seperate releases of glib/gtk+/etc, but that's a whole nother
> dead horse that i won't bother beatting at the moment. :)
> 
> just my opinions nothing more nothing less.
> -rm
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